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Week Four

Unit 3 Emergency Services

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Free Association

Emergency…. 1__________ 2___________ 3___________ 4___________ 5_____________

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Free Association (2)

Emergence and medicine… 1. ___________ 2.__________ 3.___________ 4._________ 5.__________

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A sample report

http://memo.cgu.edu.tw/yu-yen/2008-MD-unit3.htm

Vocabulary: http://memo.cgu.edu.tw/yu-yen/2006-fall-MD-unit3.htm

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The Smarter Emergency Kit

What inside the emergency kit?http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.05/st_emergency.html

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Main Ideas The article is describing emergency si

tuations happening in a hospital under severe weather conditions in Chicago.

All kinds of injuries are taking place and many people are in predicament.

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Supporting information 1: the settings After twenty one inches of snow came dow

n, the city of Chicago was paralyzed practically.

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More expressions:

Grind to a halt: Lose momentum and stop.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/grind-to-a-halt.html

Impassable visibility

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Supporting information 2: the Supporting information 2: the consequences…consequences…

The snow plowing started immediately and highway traffic were open. Doctors and nursed went back to their duties.

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Question 1:

Why the article says “miraculousWhy the article says “miraculously” when the doctors and the ly” when the doctors and the nurses all made it to the hospitnurses all made it to the hospital?al?

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More expressions

Snowploughs Miraculously Make it to V Chronic dialysis

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Supporting information 3

As the temperature dropped sharply, people were doing their best to cover themselves and to protect themselves from the extreme cold.

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Isphahan ladies

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Supporting information 4

Despite all the efforts, there were many cases in which people got suffered. There were car accidents, people suffering from physical injuries, and other cold-related health problems occurred to many people.

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Question 2

What means “casualty” and what the numerous emergent cases mentioned in the same paragraph have to do with the word?

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More expressions

Presumed osteoporosis Smash Transient Totally concluded Various viral syndromes

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Think!

Classify the related conditions. how to classify diseases? nosology? Pathology?

The internal medicine/ physicians The surgical medicine/ surgeons

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Supporting information 5: incidents and accidents More cases of cold weather related i

njuries were reported, the most salient ones are the vasoconstriction problems.

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More expressions

Intern Unaccustomed to strenuous exercise Heedless of The widely publicized advice Sudden exertions? Delegate them them to women and children?

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Supporting information 6

To conclude the article, the writer gives an account of an extreme case in which a lady exposed herself in the severe weather for more than ten hours and got hurt badly.

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More special expressions:

Admitted to the hospital/ to my service Heroin Rip-roaring pneumonia Extensive frostbite

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Questions 3In the last paragraph it says “Indicative of ou

r times was the Young woman…..,” what means “our times” here?

Fever may be indicative of an infection. 發燒可能表明受了感染。

a look indicative of joy 顯示高興的臉色 These latest figures are indicative of a slo

wing economy.

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Question 4

In order to prevent similar medical emergencies mentioned in this article from happening, what kind of advices would you give to people?

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Question 5: what problems?

Typhoon Earthquake Fire Flood

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Open discussion

Listeners’ comments and questions Readers’ critique

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Homework

Reading (1): Endure! How Paul Klee’s Illness Influenced His Art (pp.2-4)

Reading (2): Artists Really Do Have Different Brains (pp.7-8)

Reading (3): Supplementary reading: Artists Look Different

Oral reports